Example sentences of "because [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its adoption by the merchant service seems to have been fairly gradual ( and was not complete until the 1860 s ) because about this time hemp rope was improved by being laid up , or twisted , mechanically , and thus much more tightly , so that the creep was considerably reduced . |
| 2 | erm lots of advertisements produced by Tampax , erm about worry and off days and this was because during that time menstruation was one of these taboo subjects that people did n't talk about . |
| 3 | Because of normal time delays , revenue continues for a while after sales cease . |
| 4 | Because of normal time delays , revenue continues for a while after sales cease . |
| 5 | The strike — a protest against alleged falling standards because of increasing time pressures — has delayed the opening in Spain of Jurassic Park and The Last Action Hero . |
| 6 | I think one is largely on judging people in the hands of the media , looking at it from an ordinary party member I think it 's the air he gives , whether it 's an air of confidence competence and perhaps and air of confidence , the way he handles himself in the House of Commons , the things that he actually says , because within that time you 're not able , in fact , to have achieved much erm parliamentary wise , one very much has to judge a person by what he has . |
| 7 | It is important to know exactly when a contract is made because until that time either party is free to back out . |
| 8 | Indeed , there is a sense in which most of the working genes in a body can be said to cooperate with each other as a team , because over evolutionary time they ( i.e. ancestral copies of themselves ) have each been part of the environment in which natural selection has worked on the others . |
| 9 | ( Before I went to work in the morning I would take a bucket of water and a scrubbing brush and deal with the black-and-white chequered marble shop doorstep — in my memory it is a glittering affair , although cold on frosty mornings — because at that time of the day the rising sun often shone full down the High Street where we lived and on me , as I knelt on the cobbled pavement plying my scrubbing-brush . ) |
| 10 | This was because at that time I could not find a Salome . |
| 11 | At eighteen , he was physically much more mature than most English ballet students , because at that time they left school and began dancing professionally at sixteen or even younger . |
| 12 | It is likely that he chose a group of men to be his special disciples — apostles — because at that time a women would not have had the freedom to become travelling evangelists — to go round preaching and teaching . |
| 13 | It happened initially because at that time separatists were few in number , and across the country we all knew each other more or less . |
| 14 | Perhaps because I was involved with other things , perhaps because at that time I was still trying to find my feet as a bisexual and felt isolated by straight sisters and excluded by some Black lesbians . |
| 15 | He had joined the Institute in his first year at the Establishment because at that time the organisation seemed to have some sinew to it . |
| 16 | The committee pointed out that no great increase in costs would be incurred , because at that time , each vacancy had to be filled from nursing institutes ( agencies ) at a cost of 2½ guineas a week . |
| 17 | Texas Instruments , the American merchant producer , made its first overseas chip production investment in 1957 ; it chose the United Kingdom because at that time the UK represented the most favourable military and computer market outside the United States . |
| 18 | All we had to do was to pay the expense of the helicopter that brought him in because at that time he was appearing at the Prince of Wales and it was a matter of him fitting his time in with his performances , you see ? |
| 19 | David and I then had to tell him we did n't have any choice because at that time there were no other futuristic stories ready . |
| 20 | Einstein 's general theory of relativity was a bold one in 1915 because at that time background knowledge included the assumption that light travels in straight lines . |
| 21 | Because at that time . |
| 22 | er because at that time there was quite a lot , you would get one mill in probably with somewhere about seventy looms in it and there would only b be less than ten of them working . |
| 23 | Because at that time the council was er men very much older than me and er very few young people on it really . |
| 24 | So , in a case where the seller was to build a yacht for the buyer and they agreed that on payment of the first instalment the vessel and all materials used in its construction should become the absolute property of the buyer , the court held that nevertheless no property passed on payment of the first instalment because at that time the boat 's construction had not commenced and the materials to be used had not yet been identified , McDougall v. Aeromarine of Emsworth Ltd. ( 1958 Q.B. ) . |
| 25 | It is not when the merchant set out on his round because at that time Mrs. Jones ' coals was as yet unascertained — McDougall v. Aeromarine of Emsworth ( above ) . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the right hon. Member for Finchley had the opportunity to do just that because at that time she had the right of veto . |
| 27 | However , Airey ran a brilliant campaign-I was in a good position to judge because at that time Margaret had the little box of an office immediately opposite mine in the Shadow Cabinet corridor at the Commons , and this became Airey 's headquarters . |
| 28 | The the object of the operation really was to obviously apprehend er because at that time we believed that he was er a danger to the public and other people . |
| 29 | I did n't try to make them fall for me , because at that time I was n't in the mood for that sort of thing . ’ |
| 30 | Well I got interested in the trade unions because at that time more or less eighty five of the workers went to the trade union meetings . |